Journals

As the planet shifts into a higher consciousness and we begin to choose passion over expectations, the process of journaling, visualising, and connecting with our higher guidance can give us the clarity that we seek. Follow the Magic: A Workbook to Find Your Purpose is the perfect foundation to start building a life of light and purpose. This beautiful 128-page...

Our lives are buzzing with so many things to do. Kara Cutruzzula, author of the journals Do It For Yourself and Do It Today, has helped readers think creatively about motivation and encouragement. But now we need to talk about the things you don't want to do. The obligations that feel oppressive. The work projects that weigh you down. The...

The Cosmic Companion Workbook: A Guide for Incorporating Astrology Into Your Life offers an interactive foundation in astrology, including insight on your sun, moon, and rising signs, and other features of your birth chart. The world of astrology is a vast ocean of concepts and ideas that can appear intimidating when encountered. However, it is the allure of knowing more...

The keys to unlocking your personal universe are written in the stars. In Astrology: A Guided Workbook, you can map out your own cosmic story with more than 200 guided writing prompts. Astrology is a stellar language that allows us to understand the nuances of who we are and how to live our lives with more insight and awareness. We...

"And I? May I say nothing, my lord?" With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labour for the crime of "gross indecency" with other men. As cries of "shame" emanated from the gallery,...

A guided journal with writing prompts, meditations and practices to transform the heartache and pain of grief and loss into love and resilience, the mindful way. Grief is a natural reaction to loss and the mourning process can be a difficult and stressful experience. Time alone does not heal our wounds – it is what we do with our time...

'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman 'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby 'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena Kelly The carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces, and match-making mamas are plotting their campaigns; Regency London's Bon Ton are all set for another season . . . Using diaries, letters and stories of scandal...

The story of a family in modern China with a history of deceit, betrayal, and political intrigue, and the Communist Party's long shadow over them, from the Cultural Revolution to today. Following the lives of military intelligence officer Jie and his wife Moon, The Book of Secrets weaves recently found material into a narrative that not only illuminates the shadowy...

In the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnes Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. Within a year, the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape, and passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest and interrogation, imprisonment and trial...

Chronicle your adventures alongside Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear with this hardcover ruled journal, the perfect gift for fans of Cartoon Network's hit show We Bare Bears. Grizz, Panda, and Ice Bear are always on the lookout for new adventures—and mischief! Now fans can celebrate their love of Cartoon Network's We Bare Bears with this 192-page hardcover ruled journal. Featuring...

The Tudor Book of Days is a beautifully designed perpetual diary for keeping important dates, events, and seasonal notes in a personal day book. The diary pages feature a week in a double-page spread and list significant Tudor events by month and by day. There is space to add your own special notes of anniversaries, events, and seasonal notes for...

Truth and Beautiful Meaningful Lies is a collection of memorable quotes from one of the most quoted writers in American literature. One of the most celebrated writers in American literature, Jack Kerouac helped an entire generation of post-WWII Americans explore a purpose beyond the standard narrative values, spiritual ideologies, and economic materialism that was rampant throughout pre-war America. Alongside prominent...

Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's extensive private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout the war and were the basis of his monumental multi-volume official war history....

In the three volumes of The Smoking Diaries, one of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters, shame, adultery, friendship, and love. Few diarists have been as frank about themselves, and even fewer as entertaining. This beautiful boxed set contains paperbacks of The Smoking Diaries...

A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth, Cézanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging intellect and ferocious wit into his letters. This translation by Alex Danchev is based on a thorough re-examination of Cézanne's correspondence with family, friends and major figures from the literary and art worlds. Danchev's great achievement is to allow readers in English...

The complete journals of Sylvia Plath. "Everything that passes before her eyes travels down from brain to pen with shattering clarity - 1950s New England, pre-co-ed Cambridge, pre-mass tourism Benidorm, where she and Hughes honeymooned, the birth of her son Nicholas in Devon in 1962. These and other passages are so graphic that you look up from the page surprised...

Vincent van Gogh's letters are an exceptionally vivid and moving testimony to the artist's struggle to survive and work. They have always been widely read, but this book's combination of letters and illustrations gives an intimate insight into the painter's daily domestic life in Arles and Saint-Rémy, his spiritual torment, and the process of artistic creation itself. In The Illustrated...

Taking us behind drawing room doors and into high society ballrooms, The Game of Hearts follows six leading ladies and their family, friends, and contemporaries as they move from matchmaking to matrimony and beyond. Candid insights into the competitive world of the marriage mart, real stories of rakish husbands and rich heiresses, and true tales of lost and long-lasting love,...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious friendship which developed between the famously outspoken historian Ramachandra Guha and his reticent editor Rukun Advani is the subject of this quite eccentric and thoroughly compelling literary memoir. It started...

When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him. In the years that followed, they manipulated and controlled him, believing they were doing what was best for him. His grandmother...

Man of Letters traces the life, career, and commentaries on controversial issues of Thomas Sowell over a period of more than four decades through his letters to and from family, friends, and public figures ranging from Milton Friedman to Clarence Thomas, David Riesman, Arthur Ashe, William Proxmire, Vernon Jordan, Charles Murray, Shelby Steele, and Condoleezza Rice. These letters begin with...

ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? More than 10 years ago, The Big Issue began asking people that, and since then, some of the most brilliant and successful people from the worlds of entertainment, politics, food, sport, and business have...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence. Most has never before been published, and it is here presented unabridged, without revision, so that she speaks directly in her own words. The letters document Plath's extraordinary literary development: the genesis of many poems,...

In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native citizens, to the frustrated outcries of the dispossessed and the fond reminiscences of old-timers. Includes letters by: Italo Calvino, Ralph Ellison, Kahlil Gibran, Bianca Jagger, Helen Keller, Martin Scorsese,...

Letters for the Ages: Great Scientists is a captivating collection of letters from the world’s greatest scientists, dating from Copernicus and Galileo to the contemporary figures of Crick and Watson, Dorothy Hodgkin, and Richard Doll. The letters in this volume are intensely personal. While they allude to the monumental scientific discoveries, they also reveal the emotional conflicts, battles, and jealousies...

Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Hufflepuff Hardcover Ruled Journal—one of Insight Editions’ best-selling Harry Potter journals, now with a refreshing new design! This finely crafted journal—one of six Harry Potter journals based on this popular series—displays the gorgeous concept art created for the Harry Potter films, featuring fan-favourite locations such as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

This first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century's most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist, multi-media artist who painted several sexually explicit, political, identity-issue-based works and documented New York City's growth as the centre of cultural life, finance, and entertainment between the World Wars. During her first 40...

Luxuriate in the brass and blue tones of our 2026 Blue Luxe (Luxe Design) Mini 12-month Horizontal Hardcover Flexi Dayplanner 2026 (Elastic Band Closure) cover design. The original was bound in goatskin with gold tooling in the heart of Amsterdam in 1715. Contained inside the volume was the Oratio Dominica (Lord's Prayer) in almost 150 languages and dialects, compiled by...

2026 Van Gogh's Irises Mini 12-month Horizontal Hardcover Flexi Dayplanner 2026 (Elastic Band Closure) is inspired by the work of Vincent van Gogh, one of the great Post-Impressionist painters. After a severe mental health crisis, van Gogh admitted himself to the Saint-Paul Asylum, where he began to recuperate by painting the asylum's garden. The resulting study of irises is one...

In the Harry Potter films, students sorted into the house of Gryffindor are known for their daring, nerve, and chivalry. Now, fans of the iconic film series can embrace their inner Gryffindor with this deluxe guided journal. Featuring classic Gryffindor iconography, this year-long journal includes a mixture of one-line-a-day activities, lists, and free-writing prompts to help fans tap into and...

This design is inspired by a 17th-century binding that originally housed the Bustan (known in English as The Orchard) by Persian poet Saadi. Written entirely in verse, the stories are rich in moral thought. The intricate botanical patterns of this design beautifully reflect the fruits of Saadi's wisdom.

The design reproduced on this cover centres around a sensitive plant surrounded by other richly hued flowers, foliage and butterflies. The binding was used for The Sensitive Plant and Early Poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley and is a celebration of the creative spirit. The 2026 Poetry in Bloom Midi 12-month Horizontal Hardcover Flexi Dayplanner 2026 (Elastic Band Closure) captures the...

This captivating image comes from the first edition of Scottish poet and anthropologist Andrew Lang s The Olive Fairy Book. Compiled in 1907 by Lang, under the editorial guidance of his wife, Leonora (Nora) Alleyne, and illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, the book was one in a twelve-part series known as Lang s Fairy Books, with each book named for...

This Windrush pattern comes from a pencil and watercolour sketch that William Morris worked on in 1881 1883. Designed for block-printed cotton, Windrush highlights the creative approach Morris took to revealing elements from the natural world in his decorative furnishing fabrics.

William Morris, a celebrated practitioner of the Arts and Crafts movement, believed that any decoration is futile when it does not remind you of something beyond itself. He was keen to use natural dyes in his textile production, as can be seen in this pink and pastel version of his Honeysuckle printed cotton design. This elegant planner, 2026 Morris Pink...

This design is inspired by an 18th-century binding that originally housed the Khamsa (the Five Treasures) by Persian poet Nizami. Consisting of five long narrative poems, the volume is a collection of medieval romances that draw on themes of unrequited love, complementing the rich complexity of this botanical cover.

My secrets - the secrets that everyone has - are here, in black and white. Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Beginning in 1941 and encompassing...

The writer Felix Hartlaub died in obscurity at just 31, vanishing from Berlin in 1945. He left behind a small oeuvre of private writings from the Second World War: fragments and observations of life from the midst of catastrophe that, with their evocative power and precision, would make a permanent place for him in German letters. Posted to Paris in...

Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it. In the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to...

Delve deep into the twisted mind of DC Comics' notorious villain Poison Ivy with this immersive, in-world illustrated journal. Dr. Pamela Isley has made it her life's mission to advance the protection, evolution, and overall world domination of all plant-life on Earth. This notebook details just a bit of her scientific madness with notes and sketches as she descends beneath...

A growing tension between the United States and Great Britain permeates the 236 letters printed in Volume 16 of Adams Family Correspondence. The Embargo Act of 1807 cut off trade with the British in response to the harassment of American ships. John and Abigail Adams witnessed their neighbours' ensuing economic hardships and felt the sting of knowing that their son...

Love, Freddie by Lesley-Ann Jones is a captivating exploration of the life of Freddie Mercury, the legendary Queen frontman. The book delves into his personal and professional life, offering insights into his unique artistry and complex personality. Through intimate anecdotes and interviews, it paints a vivid picture of Mercury's journey from his early days to his rise as an iconic...

They were the best of enemies - dedicated, skilled, and deadly. In the night skies above wartime Germany, an RAF navigator-bomber from New Zealand and a Luftwaffe pilot seek out their targets, testing the gap between success and their own destruction as they cross each other's paths. The odds are heavily against either of them making it through the war,...

The New Zealand soldiers who left these shores to fight in the First World War represented one of the greatest collective endeavours in the nation’s history. Over 100,000 men and women would embark for overseas service, and almost 60,000 of them became casualties. For a small nation like New Zealand, this was a tragedy on an unimagined scale. Using their...

A funny illustrated guided journal to write down things you've done, seen, felt, and heard—a highly personal, maybe actually inspiring, log of what's interesting to you. In this illustrated guided journal, New Yorker cartoonist and author of Murder Book, Hilary F. Campbell invites you to find joy, curiosity, and your (maybe screaming?) inner voice. With prompts like "seen scenes" where...

Tell the world what really bugs you with prompts, questions, lists, and more to help you express yourself without judgement with The Stuff I Hate Journal. Why be toxically positive when you can be positively negative? What really gets under your skin? Can’t stand the latest clothes trends, popular shows, or TikTok challenges? That’s okay. This is your safe space...

From the hit Instagram page @MySelfLoveSupply (3 million fans) comes a five-minute journal to start the day prioritising your self-care needs. The Morning Journal is your daily companion. It will inspire you to start each week with intention and find moments of peace even on the messiest days. This is a simple, gentle guide to understanding and fulfilling your self-care...

Process your emotions and improve your wellbeing with this inspiring guided journal, which introduces intuitive drawing as an evolution of mindful drawing. What if drawing could help you express and process your emotions? Emotions add depth to our experiences, but sometimes they can be overwhelming or challenging. In this beautifully illustrated guided journal, Almudena Rocca presents an amazing technique—intuitive drawing—which...

“We all live memorable lives––sometimes we just need a little Spark to remember.” - Atticus Use this journal on the days when you’re feeling sad, nostalgic, and reflective to make yourself feel warm, powerful, grateful, and content. Use this journal to remember all you’ve accomplished, all the places you’ve traveled, all the people you’ve loved. Use this journal to honour...

Explore the transformative powers of mindfulness and self-reflection in this three-year journal from New York Times bestselling author Deepak Chopra, the founding father of meditation in America. In the same format as Potter's hugely successful Q&A a Day journal, Q&A a Day for Enlightenment presents 365 searching, thoughtful questions from Deepak Chopra that draw from his deep resource of mindfulness...

An interactive journal that inspires us to choose a path of kindness and love in every moment, from singer-songwriter and poet Valerie June. How do we wake up and shine like a badass in a world full of heaviness and darkness? How do we find the joy in the compost of the bullsh*t that we face every day in this...

A beautifully illustrated 90-day guided journal to help focus your thoughts, time, and creative energy into achieving true happiness and your goals. Awash in gorgeous watercolours and gentle, hand-lettered prompts reflecting self-love and positive action, this refreshing and empowering daily ritual is a fun and practical tool for harnessing intention and manifesting mindfulness. Focus Pocus 90-Day Guided Journal features three...

Learn how to use tarot for radical self-love, personal reflection, and imbuing every day with magic in this vibrant, interactive guide to divination, co-created by the founder of The 52 Lists Project, Moorea Seal, and debut author and illustrator Callie Little. Each of us has a hero inside—an inner guide fueled by intuition and self-compassion who steers us through the...

Do One Thing Every Day to Make You Smile is a guided journal featuring 365 quotes, jokes, and prompts designed to make you smile every single day. It is part of the bestselling Do One Thing Every Day journal series. Every day should give you something to smile about. Open to any page for a quick dose of happiness, including...

Get through the tough times with dozens of prompts and activities in this companion journal to the popular Handbook for Bad Days. A Journal for Bad Days provides the tools to help you through tough times. Inside, you will find questions to ponder while facing the worst days with courage, compassion, and your head held high. This journal provides sixty...

Celebrate your love of the hit show Supernatural with this set of two deluxe notebooks. Inspired by the hit TV show Supernatural, this two-pack set of Insight Editions’ best-selling journals invites you to join the deadly world of Sam and Dean Winchester, two hunters on a life-long quest combatting evil and every kind of paranormal threat. With this deluxe journal...

An astonishing tale of romance, resistance, and bravery ‘A sad and beautiful book, shining a light on quiet heroism in dark times.’ - Lucy Adlington, New York Times bestselling author of The Dressmakers of Auschwitz Sabine’s War is the previously untold story of a remarkable resistance fighter and her incredible story of survival against the odds. When Germany invaded Holland...

Celebrate the earth-shattering battle between Jaegers and Kaiju with this deluxe journal featuring imagery from Pacific Rim Uprising. Featuring imagery from Pacific Rim Uprising, the epic follow-up to the 2013 monster hit, this deluxe journal makes the perfect gift for fans. Directed by Steven S. DeKnight (Angel, Smallville, Daredevil), Pacific Rim Uprising stars John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens),...

Record your own magical adventures with this Harry Potter: The Deathly Hallows Ruled Notebook. This finely crafted notebook—one of six Harry Potter notebooks—is designed to display the gorgeous concept art created for the Harry Potter films, featuring fan-favourite locations such as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Fans can choose among the six notebooks—Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Hogwarts, and Deathly...

Inspired by the spells of the Wizarding World, this pocket notebook collection invites fans to celebrate the magic of the beloved Harry Potter™ films! Show your love for the magical world of the Harry Potter films with this collectible set of three unique pocket notebooks, inspired by some of the Wizarding World’s most memorable spells. Each notebook features a flexible...

To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th Australian Army Field Ambulance in Australia, the Middle East, the Kokoda Track and New Guinea during World War II. With older brother, Bill by his side, the Kennedy boys experienced the adventure and the joy, the loss and the despair...

A collection of the most inspiring and powerful letters of all time. The written word has the power to inspire, astonish and entertain, as this collection of 100 letters that changed history will show. Ordered chronologically, the letters range from ink-inscribed tablets that vividly describe life in the Roman Empire to remarkable last wills and testaments, passionate outpourings of love...

An emotional awareness journal for anyone navigating the dating world, by the popular illustrator/author of Me, You, Us. Dating is...a journey. Whether you're newly single or a veteran of the long road to finding "your person," artist and author Lisa Currie knows what you're going through. With insight, care, and good humour, she shares illustrated journal prompts to help you...

‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021 Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so...

ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES OF THIS BOOK GO TO THE BIG ISSUE If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? More than 10 years ago, The Big Issue began asking people that question. Since then, some of the most brilliant and successful individuals from the world of entertainment, politics, food, sport, and business have...

Inspired by the enduring wisdom of best-selling author, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl, a guided journaling companion on finding meaning in an unpredictable world The perfect gift for soul searchers-A treasure trove of journaling prompts, quotes, and writing exercises on purpose, relationships, happiness, and more Inspired by the enduring wisdom of best-selling author, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl,...

Taking its cue from Diary of a Provincial Lady, EM Delafield's dry-witted classic of domesticity and other vexations, Diary Of A Suburban Lady is a comic novel about the vicissitudes of domestic life chez frantic narrator Liz Dashwood. Like Bridget Jones (the third) without the death. Like Fleabag without the glamour or the priest and in a book. Like Nina...

Inspiring - GUARDIAN Heartbreaking - INDEPENDENT Beautiful - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The i Independent Book of the Month Caring is an issue that affects us all - as bestselling novelist Kate Mosse knows all too well. Kate has cared in turn for her father and mother, and for Granny Rosie, her...

Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy, and America, never quite belonging anywhere. It was only when she married an Italian man that she came to rest in one country. Fifteen years later, that country would be at war with her own. With...

This beautiful planner emphasises self-care and personal growth, guiding you with motivational prompts and exercises. It is a perfect gift or self-purchase for anyone who draws inspiration from the Seasons of the Witch series, which has captivated over 200,000 readers. Beautifully illustrated, this planner was born out of the bestselling Seasons of the Witch oracle series. It includes daily self-care...

In this collection, renowned and reclusive Italian writer Elena Ferrante addresses subjects such as her choice to remain anonymous, her literary inspirations, politics and culture, and the role of the writer (and the publisher) in modern society. Ferrante's voice is ever the same; direct, penetrating, sharp, inspiring and intimate. Frantumaglia highlights the thoughts and reflections of Ferrante, who is the...

The final volume of Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries, A Prison Diary Volume III: Heaven, covers the period of his transfer from Wayland to his eventual release on parole in July 2003. It includes a shocking account of the traumatic time he spent in the notorious Lincoln jail and the events that led to his incarceration there. It also throws light...

On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south London, to HMP Wayland, a Category C establishment in Norfolk. He served sixty-seven days in Wayland and during that time, as this account testifies, encountered not only the daily...

Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries, the author's daily record of the time he spent there. 'The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be...

Just as the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Steinbeck and Capa began a remarkable journey through the Soviet Union. Their travels took them to Moscow and Stalingrad. What they saw and recorded was what Steinbeck called the "great other side", the ordinary lives of Russian men and women. Combining Steinbeck's compassion, humour, and eye for detail with Capa's photographic...

A wonderful selection of Waugh's journalism, reissued with a new cover look. Whether celebrating Hogarth or savaging Hollywood, mocking modern manners or defending traditional English architecture, inviting readers to come inside the Catholic Church or expressing his contempt for modish Marxism and American-style religion, Evelyn Waugh's journalism is sparkling, sometimes vitriolic and always full of good sense. In this wonderful...

"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." - Oscar Wilde Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. The Illustrated Letters of Oscar Wilde is a...

The Gardener's Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow, or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics with ribbon...

For twelve months, Deborah Shepard kept a journal to help her with a chronic pain condition. Soon she found herself contemplating all of life's pains and losses, including the devastating earthquakes that shattered her hometown of Christchurch. Searching for a way through, she began observing the natural world on her doorstep and reflecting on family and friendship, flowers, beauty, literature,...